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The entrepreneurial journey: Bugcrowd, startups, products, the founder's path

Security

Upcoming talks

Here’s some of the talks and events I’ll be at over the next few months: Billington 10th Annual Cybersecurity Summit September 4-5 2019 Washington DC Hacker Halted (Key

By Casey Ellis · 14 Aug 2019
Building

Firing your clients

This concept is pushed pretty hard in Tim Ferriss’ book the 4-Hour Work Week as well… In a nutshell – you don’t want EVERYONE to be your client. You only want the GOOD

By Casey Ellis · 17 Jan 2019
Thinking

Bricks and Pyramids

QOTD: You have to build the bricks before you can build the Pyramids.

By Casey Ellis · 11 Sep 2018

Happy 6th Birthday @bugcrowd

6 years ago today I got off a plane armed with a bunch of notes. I’d spent a week meeting with pen-testing customers in Melbourne, and I’d been talking to them about bug

By Casey Ellis · 01 Sep 2018
leadership

On insight, responsibility, and ownership

Recognizing a problem qualifies you to be a part of the solution. Refusing to be a part of the solution disqualifies you from complaining about the problem.

By Casey Ellis · 02 Jan 2018
leadership

Living intentionally

Happy New Year! Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken agrees on the same thing: 2017 was a turbulent, change-filled year packed with as many high-highs as it had low-lows… bu

By Casey Ellis · 01 Jan 2018
Security

My cybersecurity predictions for 2017

If 2016 did anything for cybersecurity, it was to prove that truth can end up wayyyyyyy stranger than fiction (where fiction, of course, are end of year prediction pieces

By Casey Ellis · 19 Dec 2016
Building

How to disrupt a sleepy incumbent

When building a product or company that’s designed to disrupt a sleepy incumbent there are four phases of typical interaction you’ll have with your future competition.

By Casey Ellis · 23 Jun 2016
leadership

The three levels of input

A great tip one of our board members gave me a while back was that, as leadership and influence grow, it becomes increasingly important to make sure your team knows the type of input you’re giving them.

By Casey Ellis · 31 May 2016
Thinking

People are awesome...

…and I’m not just talking about those kick-ass Youtube videos that pop up each year. I have a core belief that people are intrinsically valuable. Sometimes the manifest

By Casey Ellis · 22 Apr 2016
Building

What a day! (Bugcrowd Series B)

So, Bugcrowd announced some pretty big news today… We closed our Series B financing of $15M, announced some amazing new partners in Salesforce and Industry Ventures. He

By Casey Ellis · 20 Apr 2016